Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike — Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. — To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq.

Diplomacy, Not War, With Iran — The recent tentative agreement with North Korea over its nuclear program illustrates how diplomacy can work even with the most unsavory of regimes. Unfortunately, it took the Bush administration more than six years to commit to diplomacy.

Panel Cites Voter Error, Not Software, in Loss of Votes — Florida election officials announced yesterday that an examination of voting software did not find any malfunctions that could have caused up to 18,000 votes to be lost in a disputed Congressional race in Sarasota County …

Jennings has another loss at voting machines … Results of a comprehensive audit released Friday show that the voting machines used in the disputed Sarasota-area congressional race were not flawed. — The findings are a blow to Democrat Christine Jennings, whose main argument in disputing …

Justice Department Fires 8th U.S. Attorney — An eighth U.S. attorney announced her resignation yesterday, the latest in a wave of forced departures of federal prosecutors who have clashed with the Justice Department over the death penalty and other issues.

Who's Carrying The Hatchet At Justice, And Why? — Another US attorney has resigned, apparently forced from her job by the Department of Justice, making a total of eight since the beginning of December. Since one normally sees this kind of turnover in the fast-food or housekeeping industries …

A Brave New Wikiworld — In the past year, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit," has been cited four times as often as the Encyclopedia Britannica in judicial opinions, and the number is rapidly growing. In just two years, YouTube has become a household word and one of the world's most successful Web sites.

New Republic Cuts Back, but Bulks Up Its Image — The New Republic, the thinning, left-leaning weekly magazine whose circulation has been hurt by the Web and possibly by what some of its core readers view as an insufficiently progressive stance against the Bush administration, has a new ownership and a new publishing schedule.

Democrats Offer Up Chairmen For Donors — Party's Campaigns Had Faulted GOP For 'Selling Access' — Eager to shore up their fragile House and Senate majorities, congressional Democrats have enlisted their committee chairmen in an early blitz to bring millions of dollars into the party's coffers …

Americans unaware of Iraqi death toll — Poll shows knowledge of U.S. dead, but huge underestimation of Iraqis — WASHINGTON - One person can tell you precisely how many Americans have been killed in Iraq. Another pays close attention to the names and hometowns of those who die each week.

GOP War Candidate McCain: Iraq Could End My Career — "He has literally sacrificed his political career because of Iraq," McCain said during an appearance before the World Affairs Council and the City Club of Seattle. "That is a great testament to his political courage."

Exclusive: Arnold Defends Hillary, Mulls Senate Run — SACRAMENTO, Calif. — If Arnold Schwarzenegger had been born in Austin instead Austria, he might be president today. — But because that office is denied him by the U.S. Constitution, he is concentrating on other things.

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